Saturday, October 06, 2007

The unread books list

A strange list indeed. I have no idea why this would matter. These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. LibraryThing is that thing I said I didn't use in my TT. So, people own these books, but many sit unread on their shelves.

Instructions: Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through books you hated. Add an asterisk* to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your tbr list. Then copy this to your own blog, and you have a prepared topic! I got this from Cathy Knits.

Jonathan Strange & M. Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment

Catch-22
One hundred years of solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveller’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Atlas shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury tales
The Historian
A portrait of the artist as a young man
Love in the time of cholera
Brave new world
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A clockwork orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels (Read assigned sections in high school)
Les misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things
A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A confederacy of dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The unbearable lightness of being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves

The mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

The only titles on my TBR list are Clarence Thomas' new autobiography, My grandfather's son, and Laura Ingraham's Power to the People. I'll probably review them later. Interesting stuff, some a little hard to believe.

3 comments:

Cathy said...

Thank you for playing - I invited you to enjoy Goodreads - I hope you enjoy that book community.

Interesting to see those "unread" books and what we HAVE read.

JAM said...

Wow, you made it all the way through Anna Karenina? That's one of those classics I sat down with, determined to read.

Yeah, not so much. I gave it 100 pages and I was countin' 'em down as I approached 100, aching to quit.

That's when I gave up trying to read "classics" unless the story line truly captured me. Unlike some, I love Dickens, and have read all of his.

To each his own, but hat's off to you for reading that one. I sure couldn't. When I saw Anna Karenina bolded I unconsciously shivered.

Norma said...

No big deal on the Russian novels--I read them in English. At least I can pronounce the patronymics. But notice how poor I am at English lit? I'm reading "A poem a day" and fortunately, many are British poets. Maybe I'll work my way into novels.